Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

by Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp

Overview

This volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policies and recommendations towards the sustainable city. It brings together leading academics with different approaches from different disciplines to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of creativity and sustainability of the city, linking research and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490395
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Luigi Fusco Girard, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, Tüzin Baycan, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp, Waldemar Ratajczak, T.R. Lakshmanan, Lata Chatterjee, Peter Daniels, Haifeng Qian, Roger R. Stough, Roberto Camagni, Xavier Greffe, Faroek Lazrak, Piet Rietvald, Jan Rouwendal Guido Ferelli, Pier Luigi Sacco, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Aliye Ahu Akgün, , Francesco Forte, Mario Giampietro, Gonzalo Gamboa, Agustin Lobo, Joe Ravetz, Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Arda Riedijk, Rob van de Velde, Robert U. Ayres, Emiko Kakiuchi.

Table of Contents

Contents: Editorial preface; Introduction: Creative and sustainable cities: a new perspective, Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard and Peter Nijkamp; Part I Creative and Sustainable Cities: Principles and Perspectives: Creative cities: context and perspectives, Tüzin Baycan; Creativity and the human sustainable city: principles and approaches for nurturing city resilience, Luigi Fusco Girard; A systems view of urban sustainability and creativity: vulnerability, resilience and XXQ of cities, Waldemar Ratajczak. Part II Creative and Entepreneurial Urban Economy: Entrepreneurial creative clusters in the global economy, T.R. Lakshmanan and Lata Chatterjee; Sustaining the creative city: the role of business and professional services, Peter Daniels; Megacities, regions, and creativity: geography of talent in China, Haifeng Qian and Roger R. Stough. Part III Urban Cultural Landscape and Creative Milieu: Creativity, culture and urban milieux, Roberto Camagni; Creativity: the strategic role of cultural landscapes, Xavier Greffe; Cultural heritage and creative cities: an economic evaluation perspective, Faroek Lazrak, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietvald and Jan Rouwendal; Cities as creative hubs: from instrumental to functional values of culture-led local development, Guido Ferelli, Pier Luigi Sacco and Giorgio Tavano Blessi; Rural areas as creative milieus: evidence from Europe, Aliye Ahu Akgün, Tüzin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp. Part IV Creative Cities: New Methodological Approaches and Planning Instruments: City design, creativity, sustainability, Francesco Forte; The urban metabolic pattern: dynamics and sustainability, Mario Giampietro, Gonzalo Gamboa and Agustin Lobo; Exploring creative cities for sustainability: towards applications of relational visualization, Joe Ravetz; Innovative geospatial-visualization techniques to collect creative input in participatory and sustainable city planning, Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Arda Riedijk and Rob van de Velde; Creative urban transport, Robert U. Ayres; Sustainable cities with creativity: promoting urban initiatives – theory and practices in Japan, Emiko Kakiuchi; Index.